Revealing the 2021 Women’s Prize longlist
We’re very excited to announce this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist. This year’s sixteen longlisted books cover both new...
Serpent's Tail
Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn’t hate. She’d scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina.
Now Katrina’s pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family – and raise the baby together?
Brit Bennett
Susanna Clarke
Claire Fuller
Yaa Gyasi
Cherie Jones
Patricia Lockwood
Brit Bennett
Clare Chambers
Susanna Clarke
Amanda Craig
Naoise Dolan
Avni Doshi
Dawn French
Claire Fuller
Yaa Gyasi
Cherie Jones
Raven Leilani
Patricia Lockwood
Annabel Lyon
Kathleen MacMahon
Torrey Peters
Ali Smith
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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